Analysis of three levels of roasting techniques in coffee roasting

Coffee roasting is a learning difficult to master knowledge, like cooking, anyone can cook food, eat can also satisfy hunger, but you cook out of the food belongs to which level? How far and how big is the difference between a chef who knows how to cook and a chef who has three Michelin stars? The same is true for roasting coffee. Roasting coffee doesn't mean roasting good coffee. We can easily classify the level of coffee roasting skills into three levels. If you are also a coffee roaster, quickly take a look at which level you belong to. Level 1: Basic Roasting This refers to those who are familiar with the basic skills of roasting coffee beans and have the ability to roast green coffee beans into coffee bean products of commercial value. "Commercially valuable" means that you already have basic roasting skills, and the roasted coffee beans can be accepted and recognized by the market. If you think you can roast coffee, but you roast coffee beans that no one else will pay for except yourself, then you are only a casual player, not even at the first level. Level 2: Adjust Roasting If you have already reached Level 1 and can optimize and fine-tune the taste, flavor, detail, etc. of each coffee bean or batch at will, then you are already at Level 2 of "Adjust Roasting"! The coffee roaster at the "Adjust Roast" level knows the roaster equipment he uses and how to add, highlight, reduce, or remove aspects of flavor presentation without changing the roast.

Roasters at the "Roast Adjustment" level have the ability to adjust the taste and sensory elements of coffee beans at will, such as roast type, body thickness, front, middle, and back flavors, brightness, richness, sucrose sweetness, caramel sweetness, Roast Delta, texture, and touch. They are also very familiar with the various sources and causes of salty, astringent, and bitter flavors, and know how to remove or avoid unwanted flavors. Roasters who have reached the "Roasting Adjustment" level can adjust and optimize the flavor of each batch of coffee beans according to the roasting blueprint in mind and the customer's requirements. Level 3: Art Baking Once you have reached Level 2, the only way to move on to Level 3, the higher level. Art baking is the reconciliation and combination of reason and sensibility, and all the baking skills you know are no longer the protagonist. Abundant skills, knowledge and experience no longer occupy your mind, coffee beans and roasting flames are your canvas and brush, showing the real soul, is the outlook on life, is the dream, is the point of view, is the value.

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